Andrei Bubnov

Andrei Bubnov (23 March 1884-1 August 1938) was People's Commissar for Education of the Soviet Union from September 1929 to October 1937, succeeding Anatoly Lunacharsky and preceding Pyort Tyurkin.

Biography
Andrei Sergeyevich Bubnov was born on 23 March 1884 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia). Bubnov joined the Bolsheviks in 1903 while a student and was arrested thirteen times, and in 1916 he was imprisoned for opposing World War I and sent to Siberia. During the Russian Civil War, Bubnov fought in the Ukraine against the White Army, and in September 1929 he became People's Commissar for Education. On 17 October 1937 he was arrested by the NKVD for his membership of the Old Bolsheviks, and he was executed by firing squad on 1 August 1938 in Moscow.